--- title: This Girl Can Campaign Promotes Healthy Body Image description: "This Girl Can" celebrates active women in a refreshing way canonical: https://time.com/3669876/this-girl-can-ad-sport-england/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-15T22:32:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:00.064Z og:title: This Empowering Ad Shows Healthy Women Come In All Sizes og:description: "This Girl Can" celebrates active women in a refreshing way og:url: https://time.com/3669876/this-girl-can-ad-sport-england/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf6cce261d9b5fe5/69877a285f570f3d5ab14bb6/screen-shot-2015-01-15-at-2-03-53-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-01-15 at 2.03.53 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Empowering Ad Shows Healthy Women Come In All Sizes twitter:description: "This Girl Can" celebrates active women in a refreshing way twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf6cce261d9b5fe5/69877a285f570f3d5ab14bb6/screen-shot-2015-01-15-at-2-03-53-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'I Jiggle, Therefore I Am': This Empowering Ad Shows Healthy Women Come In All Sizes by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jan 15, 2015 10:32 PM UTC  YouTube by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jan 15, 2015 10:32 PM UTC Do images of hard-bodied models with unattainably chiseled abs lure people to the gym or keep them on the couch? Research carried out by U.K. government agency [Sport England](https://www.sportengland.org/media-centre/news/2015/january/12/launch-of-this-girl-can/) found that 75% of women _want_ to be more active. They _don’t_, CEO Jennie Price explained in a release, due to “a fear of judgement. Worries about being judged for being the wrong size, not fit enough and not skilled enough came up time and again.” And so Sport England launched a new kind of campaign, using real talk and real women to promote a healthy lifestyle. Cellulite and all. “I swim because I love my body. Not because I hate it.” > [](https://twitter.com/Sport%5FEngland/status/554972595809185792) “I’m slow but I’m lapping everyone on the couch.” > [](https://twitter.com/CosmopolitanUK/status/554968667717648384) “I jiggle, therefore I am.” > [](https://twitter.com/BBCSport/status/555015229156098049) The campaign serves to remind the world that women’s bodies are _supposed_ to move when they move. And that skinniness [does not](http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/05/can-you-be-fat-and-fit-or-thin-and-unhealthy/) always connote health. The women here might not be ripped from an Equinox ad, but after public cries that models in a 2012 campaign looked [unhealthily thin](http://www.blisstree.com/2012/01/05/beauty-shopping/new-equinox-ads-promote-unhealthy-thinness-and-degradation-of-women-not-fitness-828/), that might be a good thing. 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